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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has played sports all his life because that’s what he loves to do. He has played one sport at the travel/club level for quite awhile and is a very solid athlete but like PP, he’ll be lucky to make his HS team because the number of kids trying out makes it’s insanely competitive. Yes in theory he could pivot to football but we’d like his brain to be in tack for college and beyond and have purposely avoided this and other high concussion potential sports for this reason so don’t see that as a viable option. The biggest issue is that more and more kids are playing sports at a higher level than ever before and if you attend a big school or a school that recruits for your sport, there’s a high chance your kid will not make the team despite being a really  strong player. It just sucks that you have that many kids who are strong who are getting cut.

And yes, of course, there are plenty of girls who don’t make the team and some girls’ sports are wildly competitive. [b]I think the comparison with girls having more luck in HS sports wise has to do with the numbers and there are more boys than girls who don’t land on a team. [/b]I am a product of title IX and I have a daughter who has benefitted from it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t see that there’s a downside for my son (who is a far better athlete than my daughter but she’s the one playing HS sports and his future there is uncertain).

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Football is no cut at our school. [b]There are zero girls team sports that are no cut[/b]. Any boy who wants to play a team sport can play football. Even field hockey has cuts at our school, so not every girl who wants to play a team sport can play. [/quote]

Really?  None at atll?  Not XC or track?  Bc it seems like its so different by school; we have a lot of options for girls.  We are in MD, in a school of around 2,200 kids.

In the fall:

Football was no cut.
Field Hockey was no cut.
Girls Flag Football had the MOST cuts (but that may be because this is such a new sport & some kids just know enough about themselves to not even try out for the soccer teams?)
XC was no cut.

In the spring
Baseball made approximately 50 cuts
Lax was cut for both girls and boys
Softball only cut 2-3 girls
Track is no cut

So, at at our school, we have at least 3-4 options for girls that are no cut (they could join the wrestling team as well, which is also no cut, even if you don't get any matches).  A girl could tie up her sneaks and make a XC team, or grab a stick and join the FH team

And essentially the same number of no cut teams for boys.

Meanwhile, the competitive sports have to cut a TON of kids.  Basically, your kid has to be open-minded to trying new sports if they want to play a HS sport but there is an option for them[/quote]

Flag football at our school is also wildly popular. It looks really fun and boy football players are helping out, with a really nice coach. All really positive. Uniforms are really cool.

One criticism - they took girls who also play other sports (soccer) who can never play or practice because the other sport (soccer) has to be the first priority.  Meanwhile other girls were cut.  That’s just not right. [/quote]

Oh, that's not fair.  At all.

Plus, its bad coaching, imo.  I'm involved in our local youth girls flag league (up through MS), and while the soccer girls are usually the quickest/most agile, they have no hand eye coordination.  The first few weeks is full of black eyes and jammed fingers because these girls can barely clap their hands, forget about catching a ball.

The softball girls have the best hands for sure.

You want the point guards and the CFers to tryout for your flag team.  I'll hand the ball off to a soccer player, but it takes a while for them to learn how to catch a ball[/quote]

I bet the soccer girls are good at defense though? Grabbing the little flags is just like grabbing a Jersey when the offense is running by.[/quote]

That's a good point.  I've seen less of a correlation from other sports to flag defense.

The funniest is when you see a coach that took ALL soccer players and then they run an offense where the QB can't throw it more than 5 yards.  You need to go out and get at least one softball player for that.

As with many sports, you need a wide array of skills on the team[/quote]

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